Listen to a sample of one of Mary's Dharma not Drama Meditations
Imagine feeling more peaceful and relaxed during the holidays…
Sound impossible?
It's not. Quietly focusing (meditating!) on universal needs for just 20 minutes a day throughout the holidays can give you the gift of a more peaceful and enjoyable holiday season.
Such a simple activity to create a profoundly positive impact… How and why does it work?
It works because your core needs are the primary energy of your life. They provide the fundamental motivation for ALL your choices and behaviors. When you use meditation to connect with and become more conscious of those core needs, you become better able to meet them, and a more peaceful, happy, and authentic life follows.
Here's what happens internally when you do 20 minutes of daily meditation centered around connecting to your core needs:
- Rewires your brain: connections between brain cells become measurably stronger, and the size and number of your brain's stress reactions decrease significantly…
- Boosts mental function, emotional stability, and overall health, enabling you to experience greater peace of mind, which…
- Increases your ability to remain grounded and centered, helping you attend to and understand feelings you may be holding during stressful moments.
Those are your internal benefits.
What about external benefits? How specifically can practicing a needs-based meditation help you successfully navigate the holidays?
First off, this kind of daily practice provides you with both perspective and insight into what YOU really want and need, enabling you to more easily decide which activities or events you may want to participate in, and which you may want to reinvent. Second, it helps you consciously — and ahead of time — connect with your need for self-support, increasing the likelihood that you'll experience the kind of energy you'd like to at this time of year. Third, what this practice will teach you about yourself can help you improve interactions with family and friends, and ensure that you'll be able to more easily walk through specific challenges you may face while spending time with loved ones.
Best of all, the benefits can last you a lifetime.
What Others Are Saying
I get so much from meditating on one need each day! Especially remembering that I am the energy of that need, and that I can bring that energy to a situation where it's feeling unmet — first acknowledging and grieving it in myself — then bringing it into the situation.
Thank you, Mary! —Deb GoldmanI have loved this series on so many levels! It really starts my day out with such a solid connection with myself. I just love that you've created a way we can feel connected, that we're all family on these calls. I never need to feel alone — so nurturing! —Kristi Doden